The intelligencer., 1887-10-15
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spoons, artificial
& withal plenty of
---.- sackle, with reels, some
old, some new, but all sensible ma
chimes not likely to get out of order.
In my ditty bag l find, beside, neat
little "honsewife" containing needles
and thread, buttons, pins, &C., very
convenient to have sometimes. Things
that "when you want 'em at all you
want 'em bad" Then there is q bottle
OF black stuff-not black bottle of
stuff, but just as write it, bottle of
black stuff-oiI Of pennyroyal, castor
oil and tar. A coat of that on the
back of your hands, the middle of
your forehead and the end of yonr nose,
will render them imperviOus to the at
tacks of mosquitoes and black gnats
We had neither on this trip, but, as
Mrs. Toodles told her better half when
she bought bargain in doorplate
bearing the name OF Thompson, there's
no telling in this world what may hap
pen and it is well TO be prepared for all
emergencies. a long minnOw seine,
two minnow buckets, live nets, a Ian
tern, number twelve breech-loader
and AZ Winchester complete the outfit
at least L think so. 1t 1 have neglected
to mention anything we should have
had it is because have forgotten, not
because it was missing from the list.
How could it be otherwise with two
old mai, bachelors, / mean, with
nothing else to think of for a week.
So, at $40, p. No., on certain day
last autumn, we left Lexington, all
comfortably seated in a chair car on
the Missouri Pacific, a railroad that
has as we'll equipped trains as are to
be found in the United States.
When man has his eyes and ears
about him he car always see something
of character. Someway, a railroad
Everybody knows how he is impressed
with the cad in the velvet vest, with the
big fob aud the expansive shirt front.
There is as plainly written in his linea-
ments and his movements, self-satistac-
ton aud the pride that he takes in a
fat pocket-book, as if he were speaking
it in the vernacular. People become
themselves alter they have been joited,
busted aud be-cindered in train for a
few hours. The petuiant are petulant,
the cross are cross and the patient are
patient.
Now for two incidents to prove this.
just back OF US was a middle-aged
curmudgeOn-not that the curmndgeOn
appeared upon the man at once. He
was fairly good looking, rotund, ap-
peared to be well kept, and upon his
partly BALD head he had the usual
skull cap. Al a station, enter a young
gentleman and lady, the latter as pret-
ty as dream iu May. They are goiGg
through. Nowhefe Ana there 4H0 esats
together th4t tbef en- Gef The one
- 4I1rl Deep is Sacant. The
Il by her companion,
8 k4ex forward to see if he can find
G6Hlrs together Directly he re-
tarns, unsuccessful. He seats himself
two chairs away, when the lady, some
what timidly, says to our friend, the
bear:-"Sir, could you, kindly, ex-
change seats with that gentleman; we
are going through and would like to
sit together?" "HumphP' grunted
the person addressed. Thinking lha,
he had misunderstood her, the lady
repeated her request, when he rudely
calculated, "Naw!" and turned his
back upon her. The girl subsidized.
Poor thing, how sorry 1 felt, but
could not help her. What emotion:
aud sensations that porcine person de-
prived these two of. Evidently lovers
! f1e elfl1fng being cooiish, how sweet
o41k.s qnder the same blanket and
"a NY EQueeze hands occasionally
Theirs be cruel moments in this wOrlC
of ours.
The other picture! Well,it is very
simple one, with little darkey for it'
hero. just opposite me, sounulN
sleeping, well dressed III brand new
toys from cap to shoes, sleeps the sleeI
OF the just a good looking negro LAD
eleven or twelve years of age. A gen
tleman with him, evidently q gentle
man by his appearance and manners
every once in a while covers the boy
with the big blanket that Slips dow
fron the motion of the rain. lie
seems to care for him as tenderly a:
he could if he were white and his own
In conversation before morning, al
we were each stretching our legs il
the smoking room OF the car, the gen
tleman, who was a southern planter
told Us tnat the boy was the child o
One OF his servants aud that he had,
years before, been stolen, during al
exodus of negroes to Kansas. That b.
had recently heard of and followed hin
to that state, but had been compelle'
by the removal of the people who ha,
him to. go six hundred miles further
That he had finally found him, and wa
now taking him to his mother. 1t
4 olfen aid that you must never judg
- hselAE lslanat depends. [ say
q - 1ii5S = hom | have here de
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never afnffo(l lne69 70 either OF them
yet would stake great deal that
have sized thems s)3f&ay,, an IN
other gentleman.
All this time our party; see et,sIss,,,. J. Z
and down the zach, way v6ifdnsl
Hs-sseupied. Our Frank old bachelo
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